Collections management as critical museum practice /
"There is a common misconception that collections management in museums is a set of rote procedures or technical practices that follow universal standards of best practice. This volume recognises collections management as a political, critical and social project, involving considerable intellec...
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : collections management is/as critical practice / Cara Krmpotich and Alice Stevenson
- Part I: Making and unmaking museum collections
- Documenting COVID-19: sensitivity, care, collaboration / Ellie Miles and Rosamund Lily West
- A failure of care: unsettling traditional archival practices / Sony Prosper
- Deciding whether and how to build a digital archive: lessons from the Jackson Park Project / Tonya Sutherland-Stewart
- Collecting the sacred: the transition of diasporic objects in between museum regimes / Bruno Brulon Soares
- Bane and boon: critical contexts of object marking / Alice Stevenson, Cressida Fforde and Lyndon Ormond-Parker
- Humanising collections disposal / Jennifer Durrant
- Part I Response: In a multiverse of timelines and possibilities... / Temi Odumosu
- Part II: A universal approach? Accessing, handling and enlivening collections
- Challenging ableism: including non-normative bodies and practices in collections care / Rafie Cecilia
- Playing the odds: the fine line between keeping an object safe and making it accessible / Alice Beale and Tom Pyrzakowski
- Managing a working collection: the Historic Furniture and Decorative Arts Collection at the Palace of Westminister / Emily Spary
- Gloves in the twenty-first century: beyond the pandemic / Paul Garside, Scott Ratima-Nolan and Cordelia Rogerson
- A healthy ageing approach to collections care / Cara Krmpotich
- Part II Response: Claim what is stored here / Devorah Romanek
- Part III: Community brilliance in shaping collections management
- On language, access and practitioners: beginning a conversation on decolonising and indigenising the care of kapa collections at Bishop Museum / Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Kamalu du Preez and Sarah Kuaiwa
- Shifting organisational culture through repatriation policy / Anna Russo
- Kaitiakitanga: Māori collection management in Aotearoa New Zealand / Conal McCarthy, Laureen Sadlier and Moana Parata
- Reconciling with ourselves: how do we decolonise collections management practices in museum spaces and systems? / Sharon Fortney
- Handling collections in the museum against cultural ethics / Nelson Abiti and Mary Mbewe
- Decolonising collection management in an indigenous ritual house in Malaysia / Yunci Cai
- Part III Response: 'Collections should reflect the relationships we hold' / Nathan Mudyi Sentance
- Part IV: Collection management's publics
- Decolonising the registration and documentation of the Dutch ethnographic collection / Cindy Zalm
- Rebuilding collection infrastructure: thinking beyond best practice collection care / Alice Beale
- Methodologies for international access and collaborative collections research in museums: challenges and opportunities / Johanna Zetterström-Sharp, JC Niala and Juma Ondeng
- Public art and artefacts- who cares: caring for art and artefacts in the public realm; ethical considerations / Susan L. Maltby
- Part IV Response: Letting people in, letting objects out: countering the dislocations of collections management practice / Ananda Rutherford
- Part V: The ethics of sustainability, preservation and stewardship in collections care
- Eastern Mediterranean perspectives on eco-conscious, resilient and sustainable preservation of museum collections and heritage sites in Greece / Vasilike Argyropoulos, Dimitrios Karolidis and Paraskevi Pouli
- Object stories in support of sustainable futures: tackling climate change at the Australian Museum / Jenny Newell and Zehra Ahmed
- Making and stewarding digital collections: case studies and concerns / Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean and Kate Hennessy
- Responses in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake: a conversation / Fuyubi Nakamura and Hiroyasu Yamauchi
- Part V Response: The best practice of sustainability and the sustainability of best practices / Josh Yiu
- Conclusion / Cara Krmpotich and Alice Stevenson.